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Does Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary have enough mental health and stress support?
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Enrollment
547
Elementary
DISTRICT 493 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CUPERTINO UNION·NCES 061029001129
Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary
1101 Strayer Dr., San Jose, CA 95129 · (408) 253-2850 · Santa Clara County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL547 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 97% of California public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
23.0:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.3:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
107 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 99 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 82 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 87 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 116 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (99) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (116).
Student demographics
36%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
87.3%
CA avg 49.1% . -5.7pp since 2014
Math
87.8%
CA avg 37.7% . -7.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 88 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 7 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 65.0% | 22.3% | 5.3% | 7.4% |
| Math | 72.6% | 15.3% | 6.9% | 5.2% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 87.3% | 87.8% |
| 2023-24 | 86.0% | 88.9% |
| 2022-23 | 81.3% | 86.6% |
| 2021-22 | 85.0% | 90.7% |
| 2020-21 | 81.6% | 88.3% |
| 2018-19 | 91.0% | 94.5% |
| 2017-18 | 90.9% | 94.2% |
| 2016-17 | 91.0% | 95.0% |
| 2015-16 | 94.0% | 94.0% |
| 2014-15 | 93.0% | 95.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
87.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.1%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 88% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 68% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 20 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary
Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary's state test result (87.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary this school | 547 | 19.6% | 87.7% |
| L. P. Collins Elementary Cupertino | 498 | 17.1% | 80.2% |
| Ardenwood Elementary Fremont | 637 | 18.8% | 82.0% |
| Garden Gate Elementary Cupertino | 471 | 20.8% | 72.5% |
| John Gomes Elementary Fremont | 462 | 16.9% | 82.2% |
| C. B. Eaton Elementary Cupertino | 489 | 15.7% | 84.9% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Santa Clara County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 87.7% | #37 of 5,151 | #10 of 226 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 87.8% | #48 of 5,172 ▼ 5 | #14 of 226 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 87.3% | #53 of 5,172 ▲ 16 | #9 of 226 ▲ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.3pp | #1,694 of 5,116 | #127 of 225 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 547 | #1,899 of 5,915 | #48 of 255 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.0:1 | #2,971 of 5,352 | #158 of 247 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 35.6% | #3,681 of 5,354 | #194 of 247 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.6% | #5,166 of 5,625 | #179 of 252 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +32.1% | #117 of 1,139 | #5 of 36 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
547
+175 (+47%) vs 2020
+17% since 1990-91, when it was 468
Student : Teacher
23.0:1
was 21.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 547 | 23.8 | 23.0:1 | 20% (107) |
| 2023-24 | 602 | 24.9 | 24.2:1 | 13% (81) |
| 2022-23 | 616 | 24.6 | 25.0:1 | 16% (99) |
| 2020-21 | 372 | 17 | 21.9:1 | 5% (20) |
| 2017-18 | 414 | 17.5 | 23.7:1 | 3% (13) |
| 2015-16 | 460 | 21 | 21.9:1 | 3% (12) |
| 2010-11 | 469 | N/A | N/A | 1% (4) |
| 2000-01 | 411 | 20 | 20.6:1 | 2% (7) |
| 1990-91 | 468 | 19 | 24.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 32% (414 to 547); teachers up 36% (17.5 to 23.8).
About Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary
In San Jose, California, Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school. The school serves 547 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25.
In Cupertino Union, 23 schools enroll a combined 13,526 students.
At 79%, Asian students outnumber all other groups at Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary combined. After that, the student body is 9% multiracial, 7% White, and 4% Hispanic. Among all residents of Santa Clara County, the Asian share is about 41%. By the diversity index, Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary comes in at 36%.
Its teaching staff equals 23.8 full-time positions, a ratio of 23.0:1. Elementary schools in California have a similar average ratio of 22.3:1. Around 20% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. The gap from the 37% average for public schools in Santa Clara County is 17 points.
The allk12 Grade for Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary is A+. Compared with California public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 97% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary is 19.6 points above expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the top 10% in California.
Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary is located in Santa Clara County, where median household income is about $164,281, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 412 public schools in Santa Clara County, with a combined enrollment of about 230,059.
The closest public school, Warren E. Hyde Middle, is about 0.4 miles from Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary ranks 5th on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Large.
Enrollment was 372 in 2020-21 and 547 in 2024-25. Large swings like this can come from changes to the grades a school serves. The ratio was 21.9:1 in 2020-21 and 23.0:1 in 2024-25.
Threads on this page can be about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Santa Clara County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,902,047
Census ACS
Median income
$164,281
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
412
230,059 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cupertino Union
- Cupertino MiddleMiddle · 1,067 students
- Joaquin Miller MiddleMiddle · 1,067 students
- John F. Kennedy MiddleMiddle · 880 students
- Sam H. Lawson MiddleMiddle · 841 students
- Louis E. Stocklmeir ElementaryElementary · 840 students
- Warren E. Hyde MiddleMiddle · 800 students
Other schools in San Jose
- Evergreen Valley HighHigh · 2,703 students
- Independence HighHigh · 2,289 students
- Silver Creek HighHigh · 2,139 students
- Santa Teresa HighHigh · 2,134 students
- Piedmont Hills HighHigh · 1,918 students
- Leigh HighHigh · 1,884 students
Nearby schools
- Warren E. Hyde Middle0.4 mi · 800
- Joaquin Miller Middle0.4 mi · 1,067
- Lynbrook High0.4 mi · 1,702
- Murdock-Portal Elementary0.5 mi · 551
- D. J. Sedgwick Elementary0.6 mi · 407
- John Muir Elementary0.8 mi · 557
Frequently asked questions
About Nelson S. Dilworth ElementaryHow many students attend Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary?
Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary enrolls approximately 547 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary serve?
Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary?
Approximately 23.0:1 students per teacher at Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary?
At Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary, the student body is approximately 7% White, 4% Hispanic, 1% Black, 79% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary in?
Nelson S. Dilworth Elementary is part of Cupertino Union.
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